The Uighur Dilemma

By

James Taranto

Updated June 5, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET

"Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and demanded that they be freed in the United States," the Associated Press reports:

The two lawmakers, Reps. Bill Delahunt, D-Massachusetts, and Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, said the Uighurs--members of a Chinese ethnic group--should be compensated and apologized to for any abuse they may have suffered while held in the detention center at U.S. naval base in Cuba. Uighurs fled their homeland in western China and...